PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS (December 6, 2021) Raghava Rao Kommalapati, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, F.ASCE has been awarded $148,000 by the U.S. Department of Interior through the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) in the second phase of the Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI). Kommalapati is the director of the CREST Center for Energy and Environmental Safety and a professor of civil [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 6, 2021) The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture-Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) awarded Ali Fares, Ph.D., $749,719 to address needs in Smart Agriculture System and Food Safety through his project GetAgSmart: Building Capacity In Smart Agricultural Technologies For Underserved Communities. Smart agriculture is an innovative concept that uses technology [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 2, 2021) For Da’Verick Hunt, a senior from Houston, Texas, participation in the Faculty Research & Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (RISE) for Undergraduate and Graduate program is an experience that helped him to master skills that are key for success and are highly sought after by companies. Hunt credits his involvement with [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS (November 23, 2021) The American Forest Foundation awarded Clarence Bunch, Ph.D., Program Leader in the Cooperative Extension Program of the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences, to enhance small farm access to USDA programs. The Texas Rural Communities, and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Program (SDVFR) project will enhance outreach, education, and training coordination within the targeted small farm community. Bunch will identify [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 23, 2021) – For Prairie View A&M University to receive $1 million as one of the inaugural partners in the Vivian Thomas Scholars Initiative (VTSI) at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is both exciting and a true honor. Biology Professor E. Gloria C. Regisford, Ph.D., was selected by Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 12, 2021) The Texas Department of Health and Human Services(TDHHS) has awarded Tiffany Thomas, Assistant Professor for the School of Architecture Community - Development Program, $292,039 to identify the reasons the target community was vulnerable to COVID-19. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-National [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 12, 2021) The Texas A&M University Health Science Center awarded Clinical Assistant Professor Antonea' Jackson, Ph.D., RN, CNE in the College of Nursing,$132,609 to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates. Jackson will expand community engagement efforts and develop educational resources to educate communities about COVID-19 vaccines The Texas Department of State Health Services is [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 12, 2021) The Department of Defense -Air Force Office of Scientific Research awarded Kevin Storr, Ph.D., $259,988 to engage in collaborative research on low dimensional materials with a research group at Rice University’s Department of Materials Science and Nano Engineering. The funding for the project, Thermal and Electrical and Conductivity Investigations [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 10, 2021) The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded Ali Fares, Ph.D., $749,719 to address the needs in Smart Agriculture System and Food Safety. Ali Fares, Ph.D. Fares, professor of water security in the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences (CAHS), collaborates on this project with Co-PI’s Peter Ampim, [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 3, 2021) – How do jurors in death penalties decide whether a person lives or dies? For Logan Yelderman, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology in the Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences, this is the focus of his newly-funded study. The National Science Foundation awarded Yelderman $340,000 to research how a [...]
